Topic: History

Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson talks about the "missing link" he found 30 years ago, a skeleton of a direct human ancestor over 3.2 million years old.

Keith Gorman, Director of the Martha's Vineyard Museum, discusses the Museum's connection to the island's lighthouses.

Elaine Cawley-Weintraub talks about the African-American Heritage Trail and the latest dedication - a plaque honoring island educators including Bob Tankard, the former principal of the West Tisbury School.

Chris Scott from the Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust talks with Guinevere about the history of the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs.

Linsey Lee talks to Tina Miller at the Martha's Vineyard Museum. She discusses the MVRHS students' exhibit about black history,
and the Vineyard Voices oral history exhibit and how they relate to
Black History Month.

Plum's Kimberly Cartwright recently attended the dedication ceremony for the 20th site of the Martha's Vineyard African American Heritage Trail. The site honors the founding members of the Martha's Vineyard chapter of the NAACP, and is located at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Edgartown where the group held their first meetings in 1964.

Sadie Burton-Goss spoke at the Martha's Vineyard NAACP brunch on Martin Luther King, Jr Day. A Boston Massachusetts native, Sadie Burton-Goss has worked and traveled throughout the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe as a consultant, trainer, writer and speaker.

She is Principal for Goss Associates. Her experiences span twenty years as an intemal/extemal consultant and manager in health care, high tech, education, government, and the financial services industries.

In addition, she has served as a management consultant to over one hundred organizations, in both the private and non-profit sector. In this segment, Plum's Jane Loutzenheiser sat down with Ms. Burton-Goss to talk about the life Dr. King.